Item 143 is a personal African safari photo album. It was kept Max C. Fleischmann, heir to the Fleischmann Yeast fortune. He lived from 1877-1951, with this trip coming around 1907. Max Fleishmann obviously was well off as several of his photo albums are offered, including trips to Alaska and Mongolia. This album is headed, Two Months "On Safari" in British East Africa, primarily in territory now part of Kenya. The album starts with the party crossing the Suez Canal, going down the Ugandan Railway, and on to hunts along the Thika River. Pictures cover the caravan and its porters, gun-bearers, and campsites, lots of wild game, including rhinos, zebra, lions, giraffes and antelope, native warriors and villages, and the trek to Nairobi. The final three dramatic photographs capture a crocodile successfully taking down a rhino along the banks of the Thika. $7,000.
Item 207 consists of six prints from the Derrydale Press of Fathers of American Sport. Printed in 1931, they include people notable long ago in sports such as foxhunting, angling, horse racing, and yachting. However, one man, described as a "foxhunter," will be familiar to all Americans for a different reason. It is a portrait of a young Colonel George Washington. $4,500.
Moving up to the modern era, item 407 is the first issue, volume 1, number 1, of Sports Illustrated, dated August 16, 1954. This included a six-page baseball card fold-out from Topps, with portraits of stars of the day such as Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Vernon Law, Eddie Matthews, and Ted Kluszewski. $750.
Item 405 is a large assortment of skiing material, including the collection of Gary H. Schwartz, who wrote "Skiing Literature: a bibliographical catalogue." It consists of 1,600 items with books, journals, brochures, photographic albums and catalogues. The oldest book dates to 1558 (Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus by Olaus Magnus) as the collection traces skiing from its early days as a means of transportation. However, the main focus is on skiing as sport with works by virtually all of its creators and early commentators. Price on request.
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Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
Sotheby’s Book Week December 9-17, 2025
Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
